On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:13:57AM -0500, Puneet Kishor scratched on the wall:
> While your suggested documentation won't harm, and will likely help, > actually the above does suggest to me a short-circuit-ish kind of > logic from the assertion that "The coalesce() function returns a > copy of its first non-NULL argument." Why? It is a function call. One would expect all the parameters to be evaluated, and then the function called. In almost all languages, short-circuit evaluation is reserved for operators, not function parameters. -j -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Intelligence is like underwear: it is important that you have it, but showing it to the wrong people has the tendency to make them feel uncomfortable." -- Angela Johnson _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
